Sunday, April 15, 2018

April 16-20, 2018

RBES Rocket Relay
ELA Milestones Practice
Milestones Practice - Prepdog

ELA:
Informational Writing - Continue opinion writing
Mentor Sentence: Looking at mentor text and discussing how to incorporate style of various sentences into personal writing. This week's focus: complex sentence structure
Grandpa's Teeth by Rod Clement
When Grandpa was interviewed, he asked the reporter, Pearl White, if he could borrow some of her teeth.
Vocabulary: Week 20 - Quiz Friday, April 20
**Know the words and their meanings as well as how to use the words correctly in a sentence according to their meaning**
verify - to prove or check the truth
etiquette - rules for the proper way to behave
motivate - to provide a reason for doing something
frail - not having much strength
gaze - to stare
attain - to reach a goal
classify - to arrange or order into groups
categorize - to place into or assign to a category
critical - of essential importance; involving skillful importance
significant - important in effect or meaning
Reading:
* Close Reading strategies with informational and fiction text
* Main idea and details review
Science: Pollution - Study guide posted in previous post as well as here. Paper copy
went home last week.

Standards covered:
1. Explain the effects of pollution and humans on the environment
2. Identify various substances that contribute to the pollution of water
and air and to the contamination of our environment
3, Explain the effects of pollution (littering) to the habitats of plants
and animals
4. Explain how technology has altered the environment
5. Identify ways to protect the environment such as conservation of
resources and recycling of materials

Math: Fractions - Identify and create equivalent fractions, compare fractions with like
and unlike denominatorsStudy multiplication facts each night.
Homework:
* Spiral HW - math only
* Read 30 minutes nightly
* Study Pollution - test Friday, April 20th
* Study Vocabulary - week 20; test, Friday, April 20th
* Study multiplication facts
* IXL (starred items in math and ela), Mobymax (fact fluency), Khan Academy


Important Dates:
April 24 & 25 - ELA Milestones
April 26 & 27 - Math Milestones
April 30 - Willy Wonka play at NOHSMay 7 - Math MAP
May 12 - Field Day
May 14 - ELA MAP
May 18 - Last day
Technology:
Students have log-ins for the following programs and can practice at home: IXL,
Khan Academy, MobyMax, Typing.com. If you need this information, and have lost the
letters that went home, please email and I will be happy to share with you.

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